Concerns are mounting over revelations that President Obama attended the 1991 wedding of tonight's debate moderator, ABC's Martha Raddatz, whose now ex-husband, Julius Genachowski, was a law school buddy of the president and a man whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Parental rights advocates, anti-pornography activists and at least one current member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are condemning as "anti-family" a decision by a federal appeals court that declared the FCC's ban on "fleeting obscenities"during prime-time hours as unconstitutional.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The first step in a process that will lead to more federal oversight of the Internet began last Thursday when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to begin the process of reclassifying the Web as a “telecommunications service” rather than an “information service” in order to broaden its authority over it.
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